journal out of syc with zone error

[Cricket Liu]

> I found that one of my zones stopped working correctly. It's a 'made-up'
> zone (mmc.edu) that employs DDNS. I created this private zone so that M$
> active directory could connect to it to list its services.
> Everything was working fine for about a month and then stopped working all
> of a sudden. I restarted named and checked /var/adm/messages and found an
> error like: "dns_zone_load: zone mmc.edu/IN: journal out of sync
> with zone".
> I understand the basics of ddns but what I don't understand is how this
> happened or how to fix it. I thought that restarting named would
> resync the
> zone and .jnl file, but it still doesn't work.
> I'm running BIND 9.1.0 on Solaris 8 and I can supply my zone files if
> needed.
> Any help would be  appreciated. Thanx.

Did you edit the zone data file manually?  named is complaining because
the journal doesn't contain a record of some change made to the zone,
probably a change you made manually.

If you delete the journal file and restart, the message should go away.

cricket

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